re: #93 Obdicut

I’m not sure who gains from giving parents the choice to do unnecessary medical procedures on terminally ill kids, though. There was no hope of the child recovering.

Well, the board is, among other things, a medical ethics board. Similarly, in the US, a critically ill child might be denied a transplant because it was going to die anyway. The decision made by the board was that the resources that would be used to give this child a trachaetomy would be wasted. How could they decide otherwise? They couldn’t pretend it actually would help, that it actually was a good use of medical resources.

In the end, the parents got their wish. A trachaetomy was performed— they raised the money for it and got i. The child died. And they may go ahead and have another child. I don’t see anything in their behavior or attitude that indicates that they would do otherwise.

Well, I very uncomfortable getting into a discussion about who should be making the decisions about this couple having more children. As far as I’m concerned, that’s their choice, their decision, they may make stupid ones, but it’s not something I want anybody else having any say in. Really, Obdi. Think about where you’re going with this.